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Documents in World History: The Great Tradition, Volume 1 (From Ancient Times to 1500)

ISBN: 9780321330543 | 0321330544
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
Considerably revised, this edition of Documents in World Historygives professors a large variety of primary sources from all areas of the world. The book retains its global emphasis and includes more primary sources that balance social and cultural history with standard selections, political coverage, and fuller coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia. Several individual passages have been replaced or augmented to provide greater richness and interest. Materials on social issues have also been augmented.
Geographical Contentsx
Topical Contentsxiii
Prefacexvi
Introduction1(6)
SECTION ONE Early Civilizations
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Mesopotamian Values: Ideas About the Nature of Life and Death
9(5)
The Gilgamesh Epic
Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects
14(7)
The Code
Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife
21(7)
Book of the Dead
Visual Source Egyptian Artifacts for the Dead
26(2)
The Hebrew Bible
28(10)
From the Hebrew Bible
Herodotus and the Persian Empire
38(5)
The Histories
Zoroastrianism: The Major Persian Religion
43(4)
Hymns of Zarathustra, Verse 33
SECTION TWO The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
47(140)
China
Key Chinese Values: Confucianism
49(7)
The Small Analects
Legalism: An Alternative System
56(6)
Han Feizi
Daoism
62(5)
Dao de Jing
Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao
67(7)
Lessons for Women
Visual Source Portrait of Ban Zhao
72(2)
The Role of the State in the Economy: The Salt and Iron Debates
74(6)
Economic Debates
Visual Source Chinese Tomb Rubbing
Classical India
79(1)
``To Fight in a Righteous War'': Varna and Moral Duty in India
80(8)
Bhagavad Gita
Visual Source Indian Painting of Arjuna and Krishna
86(2)
What the Buddha Taught
88(7)
Four Noble Truths
Visual Source Buddhist Cave Painting in India
93(2)
The State and the Economy in India
95(6)
The Arthashastra
Emperor Ashoka and ``Right Conduct'': The Doctrine of Dhamma
101(6)
Ashoka's Edicts
Gender Relations in India: Four Types of Evidence
107(8)
Indian Gender Culture
Visual Source Gender Imagery in India
113(2)
Greece and Rome
The Greek Political Tradition
115(4)
Plutarch on Sparta
Athenian Democracy and Culture
119(5)
Pericles
Mediterranean Social and Family Structure
124(4)
Aristotle
Leadership in the Roman Republic
128(5)
Plutarch on Cato; Plutarch on Crassus; Cicero's Advice
The Roman Military and the Empire
133(8)
Josephus
Women and the Law in Rome: Legal Codes
141(4)
Women in Rome
The Fall of Rome
145(5)
Marcellinus and Rutilius Numantius
Global Contacts and World Religion
Global Contacts: The Rise of the Pastoral Nomads
150(7)
A Chinese Historian Describes the Nomads
Global Contacts: The Opening of the Silk Road
157(10)
Chinese and Roman Sources
Visual Source Buddhist Stupa in Sri Lanka Visited by Faxian
165(2)
Monks and Monarchs: Buddhism Spreads to China, Korea, and Japan
167(13)
Buddhism in East Asia
Visual Source Buddhist Sculpture in China
178(2)
The Spread of Christianity: Justin, Anonymous Documents
180(7)
Christian Records
SECTION THREE The Post Classical Period, 500--1500 C.E.: Expansions and Contacts
187(172)
The Islamic Middle East
The Koran and the Family
189(7)
The Koran
The Islamic Religion
196(5)
The Hadith
Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East
201(7)
Al Mawardi
Visual Source Religious Leadership in Islam: The Imam
206(2)
China and Japan
Peasant Life in Tang and Song China: Evidence from Poetry and Legal Documents
208(10)
Peasants in Chinese Culture
Visual Source Chinese Woodblock Print
216(2)
``The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangzhou'': Marco Polo in China
218(5)
The Travels of Marco Polo
Valor and Fair Treatment: The Rise of the Samurai
223(5)
Samurai Values
Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Russia
The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire
228(8)
Procopius
Visual Source The Greatest Cathedral in Byzantium
234(2)
Russia Converts to Christianity
236(4)
Russian Primary Chronicle
Western Europe
Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta
240(6)
Feudal Documents
Medieval Theology: Anselm of Canterbury Blends Faith and Reason
246(4)
Anselm of Canterbury, Monologion
Christine de Pizan: Women and Society in the Late Middle Ages
250(8)
Mirror of Honor
Merchants and the Rise of Commerce
258(4)
Ordinances of the Guild Merchant of Southampton
Africa
East Africa and Arab Traders
262(3)
Buzurg ibn Shahriyar
Al-Bakri on West Africa
265(6)
Al-Bakri
African Kingdoms and Islam
271(7)
Writings of Ibn Battuta
Visual Source A Major Artistic Tradition: The Sculptures of Benin
276(2)
Africa Through the Eyes of an European Merchant
278(4)
Antonius Malfante
The Americas
Mayan and Aztec Creation Stories
282(6)
The Mayan Story of Human Creation from Popol Vuh; Aztec Creation Story of the God Utzilopochtli
Tribute Under the Aztecs
288(5)
Observations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes
Visual Source Aztec Goddess
291(2)
The Andean Kingdom of Chuquito in 1567
293(3)
Testimony of Martin Cari, Chief (Cacique Principal) of the Lower Division (Anansaya) of Chuquito
Forces of Change
China ``Discovers'' Africa
296(3)
Duan Chengshi and Xin Tangshu
Merchants and Trade: Sources and Comparisons
299(7)
Ibn Khaldun, Reginald of Durham on Saint Godric
Global Contacts: Travelers to Holy Places
306(14)
Pilgrims' Experiences
Visual Source Muslim Pilgrims in Mecca
318(2)
Global Contacts: Sailing to Calicut
320(7)
Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
The Crusades: Christian and Muslim Views
327(8)
The Crusades
The Mongols
Chingis Khan and the Rise of the Mongols
335(13)
The Secret History of the Mongols
Visual Source Persian Painting of Chingis Khan Leading the Charge
346(2)
The Mongol Empire Takes Shape
348(11)
Asian and European Sources
Mongol Rule in Russia
359(1)
Chronicles and Other Accounts

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